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(11) | EP 1 555 578 A3 |
| (12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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| (54) | Image forming apparatus in which recording sheets having a tab are used |
| (57) An image forming apparatus includes: a feeding section for feeding sheets with tabs
and sheets without tabs; a tab detecting section for detecting the end position, in
the sheet conveyance direction, of tabs on the sheets fed by the feeding section;
a conveying section for conveying sheets that are sequentially fed by the feeding
section; and a control section for controlling the conveying section in such as way
as to keep constant an interval between a trailing edge of a preceding sheet in the
sheet conveyance direction and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet, based on the
results of tab detection by the tab detecting section.
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